Large Scale Information Storage and Retrieval: DS 4300 – Spring 2025

• DS 4300 – Spring 2025 – Course Syllabus
• TA Office Hours
• Campus Wire for 4300
• GradeScope for 4300

• Lecture 01 – Introduction
• Module 02 – Data Structure’s Effects on Performance
  • Foundations Slide Deck
  • Note the additional references added to the Playlist on O’Reilly. I’ve added sections from books on BSTs and AVL Trees, specifically in Python.
  • Binary Search Trees References:
    • Notes from U Rochester (Stop at page 20)
    • UCI Notes on AVL Trees (Stop at Analysis section)
  • AVL Tree Rotations Diagram
  • B+ – Trees
    • Open Data Structures – B-Trees and B+-Trees (may need the ref the material above this part of the page)
    • Notes on B-Trees (but really they are B+ Trees)
    • Fontenot’s B+ Tree Example Walkthrough
    • Video B+ Tree Walkthrough by TA Aryan Jain (Thank you!)
• Module 03 – Moving Beyond the Relational Model
• Module 04 – Data Replication (Will cover later)
• Module 05 – NoSQL and KV DBs
  • Redis + Docker Setup
• Module 06 – Redis + Python
• Module 07 – Document DBs + MongoDB
• Module 08 – MongoDB and PyMongo
  • PyMongo Examples in Jupyter Notebooks
• Module 09 – Graph Data Model
• Module 10 – Docker Compose and Neo4j
• Module 11 – AWS Intro
• Module 12 – EC2 & Lambda
• Module 13 – S3 and RDS

Homeworks

• Homework 1 – Lists and Trees
  • Handout
    • EC Due Date: Jan 12 @ 11:59 pm
    • Regular Due Date: Jan 14 @ 11:59 pm
    • Submit to Gradescope
• Homework 2 – AVL Trees, Hash Tables, and B+ Trees
  • Handout
  • EC Due Date: Mon Jan 27 @ 11:59 PM
  • Regular Due Date: W Jan 29 @ 11:59 PM
  • Submit to GradeScope
• Homework 3 – MongoDB + PyMongo
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • EC Due Date: Sun Feb 16 @ 11:59 pm
  • Regular Due Date: Tues Feb 18 @ 11:59 pm
• Homework 4 & Sample Exam Questions
  • Handout

Practicals

• Practical 01 – Index Builder
  • EC Due Date: Last Commit before Feb 2, 2025 @ 11:59 pm
  • Regular Due Date: Last Commit before Feb 4, 2025 @ 11:59pm
  • Verification Dataset: > here <
    • This is a small collection of 18 JSON documents from the original data set modified to include additional specific words to confirm searching produces correct results.
    • You can also use this dataset to characterize the data structure organization (for each one your team is implementing) after indexing.
    • Search Set (from Final Deliverable Step 3: Northeastern, Beanpot, Husky
  • Template Analysis Report
• Practical 02 – Vector DBs & LLMs
  • Project needs to be functional by March 24’s exam
  • Final deliverables are due April 2, 2025 @ 11:59pm
  • Slide Deck Template

March 24, 2025 using RAG LLM as your cheat sheet.

More information coming soon!

Python Refs:

• Python Style Guide (PEP 8)